When: The Art of Perfect Timing by Stuart Albert

Perfect length for a transatlantic flight.

Human brains are time impoverished—inability at processing the concept of time. We naturally see the events happening in our lives as main protagonists, and time is merely a container that we fit events into.

Yet, a kiss that lasts a fraction of a second is a peck; one that lasts a minute is a proposition; and one that lasts five minutes is an act of resuscitation. Similarly, a contact, executed with longer duration is a touch, with shorter duration is a punch. Our hand, is an elegant design with four fingers and an oppositely located thumb that enabled grabbing. However, our hand can only grab if the thumb arrives simultaneously as other fingers.

Time, therefore is not a container of our actions, but a constituent of them. Yet, there is a reason why we often forget the impact of time and place more focus on the event itself. This book illustrated why human brains have trouble processing the concept of time (Copland’s Constraint, Brain quantum of time travel, paradox of competence), which leads to the conventional belief that any attempt to control timing is futile. The book also introduces timing analysis, trains us to better vision the sequence, shape, rate, interval, leads, lags and overlaps of time.